The first round of broccoli is in full swing and wow are we about to get buried in it. I’m going to be blanching and freezing like there’s no tomorrow before the long weekend is over. I’d like to believe we’ll keep up, but we won’t, and so we may as well put it away […]
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One Local Summer - Week 3
Posted in recipes, Local Foodshed, one local summer, locavore, eat local, canning on Jun 22nd, 2008
Bear with me as this is a looooong post.
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Summer has finally arrived - or at least as close to it as we’ll see until July 5. The solstice brought warm humid weather for the weekend, perfect for getting the heat loving plants to perk up. It also brought the first of the strawberries to the […]
What We’re Eating
Posted in recipes, reading, one local summer, locavore, eat local on May 27th, 2008
Lest you think that we’re so busy local eating has gone by the wayside, let me assure you that things are still pretty dang local around here. The garden isn’t feeding us, but hopefully we’ll have lettuce and radishes soon. In the meantime I’ve been hitting the farmer’s markets and the local grocers that reliably […]
Mike and I don’t really “do” Valentine’s Day. Never have. The most “into it” we ever get is going out to dinner. Usually Mike gets me a grocery store bouquet and I make dinner at home.
This year we were going to do nothing, but then it turned out that Thursday night is the best night […]
My mom and I were talking a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had my great aunt Audrey’s recipe box. That she’d gotten it when she passed away a few years ago but hadn’t done anything with it. Then she offered it to me since I’m the “cook” in the family. Scary […]
Turns out that you can cook a fresh ham roast just like you can cook a pork shoulder. Once I found that out from a very helpful internet friend, then the world was my oyster. Or at least my pork roast. I looked around for a while and finally decided to try a recipe from […]
Just a collection of random thoughts
Posted in urban chickens, recipes, locavore on Dec 11th, 2007
What are we, or they, so afraid of? I stopped at our neighborhood QFC today, not really to grocery shop, but to grab a few things I knew they would have. Or at least thought I knew they would have since I didn’t have time to go to the co-op.. All I was after was […]
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